Re: Farmall M's Gas Hog's

Posted by Hugh MacKay on September 12, 2004 at 16:03:49 from (216.208.58.115):

In Reply to: Farmall M's Gas Hog's posted by Sean Heywood on September 12, 2004 at 10:57:13:

Sean: I don't think you could consider either the H or M or in fact the Super versions gas hogs compared with other gas tractors of that era. What gives them the reputation of gas hogs are the diesels that followed. Many of those diesels were performing the same work on about 1/3 the fuel the gassers were. I should not have used the term diesels that followed, as the MD or SMD were much more fuel efficient than the gasser models.

Just to give you an example, we had a gas Farmall 300 when the first NH 9' haybines hit the market. That 300 would eat up 3 Can. gallons of gas per hour on haybine. With the new Farmall 560 diesel that dropped to 1 Can. gallon per hour. Back in those days we were using the imperial gallon, 20% larger than US gallon. The other factor the 300 was loaded, 560 was playing.

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